Friday, January 27, 2012

Do you ever have that dream where you show up to work and discover you've forgotten your pants?

I love that dream.

OK, truthfully, I've never had it. That's probably because running around naked in public doesn't crack the top 100 on my list of things I fear. Then again, my most common recurring dream is one where all my teeth fall out. Does that point to some deeply held dental phobia?

Now I'm thinking about running around with no pants and no teeth and wondering if this would be a really excellent concept for a sci-fi movie, and I've totally forgotten the point of this blog post.

Which was supposed to be that even though I don't live in fear of forgetting my pants, I do often jolt awake at midnight thinking, did I forget to blog?

I did. Sort of. It's not the middle of the night – it's actually only 5:20 p.m. – but I'm dashing off to book club for a late night of drinking too much wine discussing literary theology, and I just remembered I haven't scheduled a post for tomorrow. Since I have a longstanding policy of never blogging after drinking too much wine discussing literary theology, I'm coming up empty handed.

There's a filthy joke in there somewhere with that last line, so feel free to make it. Or feel free to share your weirdest recurring dream, particularly if it's about lost pants or missing teeth or maybe a gargoyle who eats a baloney sandwich before donning a purple tutu and winning the Portland Marathon.

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Oh, how I love your pants, I mean posts! However, I do have both of those dreams. Except I’m back in school when I don’t have my pants on, which I’ve woken up in cold sweats over. And I’ve had the dream when my teeth fall out. BUT the dreams I have that tick me off the most is when I’m in a fight club and no matter how hard I swing, I barely knick the person and they laugh. Frustrating! Hope you had fun at your book club.

I don't remember ever dreaming about walking around naked or half-clothed, or if I was, it didn't bother me in the dream. I do dream a lot (dream alot!) about falling (a phobia of mine) from various places: cliffs, rooftops, down stairs, off the bed, etc.

(I want a dream alot...with a little sleep hat and teddy bear and her dreams painted all over her...)

I have dreamt many dreams about showing up without pants, but in my weirdest dream I'm having picnic with my family. At a table at the playground of my old elementary school. Then two mooses appear, I tell everyone to run to the car because they're going to attack (no idea how I know this). They attack, we run. Everyone gets into the car - safe from me. I fall, and I can't get up. And those mooses get closer and closer.

Then I wake up. Strangely, I'm not the slightest scared of mooses in real life. I met them often enough when riding to be blasé by now. But yeah, had that dream twice and got equally freaked out the second time.

I used to have a reoccurring nightmare about being attacked by squirrels.... they would scamper up my arms, sink their teeth in and not let go... Yup, totally random and strange... thanks, I've already been told.

I've been told the teeth falling out dream is a sign of repressed rage. I'm pretty sure the person who told me knew what she was talking about, she worked for a dentist she would happily have murdered.

As for all time favorites: Last week I dreamed I was in the shower having sex with Ryan Gosling. And yes, it was a very DETAILED dream. And then my mother walked in.

Funny stuff. When you're a blogger, forgetting to blog is like forgetting to do your homework. The excuse "the dog ate it" won't cover it. Hope you had your fill of literary discussions. It's good for the soul (and not bad the love life either). Happy to have stopped in.